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all of which presumes that you've elevated prefixes to the status of uri's - attribute defaults or not. Richard Goerwitz wrote: > > Ronald Bourret wrote: > > > The only inobvious bit is that, because there is no way to declare > > namespaces in the DTD, you can't declare different default namespaces > > for different parts of the DTD > > Because the DTD is not namespace aware, all it can deal with are the pre- > fixes you declare (not the URLs associated with them). Since these pre- > fixes are declared in the document content, you end up with a peculiar > situation in which the DTD has to be written according to declarations > in a given document instance, rather than the reverse. Worse yet, there > is no way to be sure that the various documents being validated against > a particular DTD use the prefixes correctly, with the correct URLs, un- > less you make extensive use of attribute defaults - which, ironically, > means we now need the DTD (probably an external one, typically with a > bunch of parameter entities; so get your validating parser ready). xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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